The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-24 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN. Under the Management Harrison.f Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. THIS EVENING (12th time) a new Opera, founded on Gosmith's Comedy, and to be called SII 14'. STOOPS TO v,ONIdQUER. Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison. After which, the Burlesque Opening of the Grand National pantomime, lIAII,LEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open at half-past Six—Commence at Seven. .THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, M .F ess. Edmond Falconer and . B. sr Chatterton. . THIS EVENING, the Performances will commence with the New Seno-Comic Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled NIGHT AND MORN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, Messrs. Earrett, zjames, Miss Atkinson, Miss R. Leclerc% and Miss iicatti. To conduct. , with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime of SINVAD THE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders of tit' World. Clowns, Y.essrs. H. Poleno and C. Lauri ; Tylrlequins, Messrs. Cormack and S. ; Psutaloons, Messrs. W A. Bai.m . s and J. morris ; Columbines, `dada Iso(eno end Nli;:seA Prices as usual. box Office open from 10 till 5 IfHEATRE ROYAL HAY MARKET.- sole Lessee and Manazer, Mr, Buelcstone. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE DAISY. Miss Maria Harris. Followed by BUNKUM MULLER. Mr. Sothern. After which, 011 R AMERICAN COUSIN : Messr Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale , Brai d, Gordon. Rogers,s. Clark, Cullentorcl, &c. ; Mesdames Angel , Snowden, Harris, Lindley, Hill, &c. And'A. KISS IN THE DARK . . Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DEIIONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Evening during the Week. THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with a New and Original Farce, entitled den, THE F. Charl LOST CHILDett: Messrs. H. Widdicombe, Shore, ares Coll, M , ,reland 3113ses Percy, Pauline Lezlerci Wood, Mrs. Lee, and Miss E. Lavenu. A 'lter which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONTO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian pal cliarac Chronicles," by Mr. John Brougham. Princi ter by Mr. Fechter, supported Moreland,2lessrs. Jordan, Charles, Brougham, Emery, Raymond, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, and 511sa Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is itta.de to the occunants of Boxes, Bo:c-places, or Stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keeping of hate and cloaks, and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to rixelve any gratuities whatever. Box-oMee open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. 13: OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- C Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.• THIS EVENING, PAUL'S RETURN. After which, HARLEQUIg LITTLE TOM TUCKER; or The Fine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't snow what to do, I\TEW THEATRE-RO VAL, ADELPHI.— Vll S o lo Proorfator and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. 2:st Week of Miss Bateman. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREARE E. Miss Woolgar and NKr. J. L. Toole. to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bate ran, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil ington, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburnc; Miss IL Simms, and Mrs. 13illington. To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE • or, Portant° and his Seven Magic Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, It. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Wool,g.ar, Miss IL Kelly, Miss Patti iOse2hs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEAH.- ISS B EVE ATE RV N. NIGHT. MMA ity IS S BATEMAN.-LEAH.-THIS EVENINGS' IVil_ the 12.5 th appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss BATEMAN, in the character of LEAH. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the prircipal character in the new Five Act Drama ot LEAH has been attended. Mr Webstf-r befzs to announbe that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further votice. R OYAL ST, JAMES'S THEATRE, under'the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Croy , ded with rank and fashion.—The New Comedy of THE SILVER LINING every Evening.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, tdrs. Frank atthews, and Mr. J. L. Toole every evening,. The following emtnent artistes are trio - aged :—Mr. Benjamin Webster. Mr..T. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Fiederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Chas. Mathews ; Mrs. Stirllng Miss Herbert. Mrs. Frank Mat thews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Went worth, and Mrs. Charles Mat:aews. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, at 7 o'c - ock, an entirely new Comedy, in 3 Acts, by Leicester Bucking ham,Esq., entitled T E SILVER LI NIN( : Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr, John stone. Mr. Montague ; Mrs. ( harles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth. and Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by Mr. Charles Mathews just translated irom the French)in his characteristic eh aracter of Un Anglais Tinaide, entitled COOL AS A CUCUMBER. To conclude with THE BIRTIIPLACEIOF DODGERS. Mr. J. L. Toole, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Mana.zer, 'Mr. W. 11. Swanhorough. THIS EVENING, ON AND OFF. 'r o be followe by 'UNLIMIED CONFIDENCE. Mr. ,lelforci, Mr. Pa.rsz d dle ; l'aißs Marie Wilton, Mis 3 Thorne. After whi:7ll, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, 0 EIPIIEITS EURYOIUI : MessrA. Honey, Wood, Jamni Fenton, mesdames Swanboronzh, Marie Wilton, Hughes., &c. Coecluding with MARGATE Commence at 7. (RACE EGERTON' (Mrs. George Case), NUJ at the POLYGRAPIIIC TTAT,L, Ring William strcet (her THIRD SEASON in London), in her New and highly successful Characteristic and Musical Entertainment entitled " A DRAWING ROONI TO LET." EVERY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday). Faturday Mornings at Three. Stalls. 34. ; unreserved seats, 2s. ; area, Is. Will continue positively for a month cnly. Last performance March 12. PHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ?tan be had Every Evening of G. R. GLItNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. COALS. —The LILLESHAL L COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 26s. per ton. I Double 21s. per ton. Top 251. „ Nut 5........ 19.9 „ Deep .228. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, IV., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Best Coke 'ss. per eialdron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. HIGITI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIs DA - T.—Morning, 3h. 21m.—Afternoon, 31. 33m. ro-mounonv.-Morning, 3h. 50M.—Afternoon, 4h. 4m. The Weather—Sun Office, Feb. 24, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two - o'clock Barometer-30.30 , ; moderate breeze, and fine.: t ~'' ~ 14 71f 'LAji ' v~~~ ~ LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24, 1864. While the immediate result of last night's discus. sion is the House of Commons cannot but be in the highest degree satisfactory to the Government, the ulterior effect produced upon public opinion by the -arguments put forth during the debate which led to that Ministerial triumph upon the division, may be regarded with complacency by the nation at large as most salutary, even in anticipation. That effect will become manifest more and more:as the session ad v ances. It is already appreciable. It is mar posssible to look through those arguments this day, a 3 it was imP°s Bll :lle to listen to them last night, without feeling that good has been done already by the mere fact of the discussion. It may have appeased hitherto, for some considerable time past, that almost everything that required to be known in regard to the arbitrary seizure or the two ironclad vessels, El Tousson and El Alonassia'whil e y e t i n th e building yard of the Messrs. LAIRD B rothers, was known already. And doubtlese, to a ce r t a i n extent, that " flattering unction" m ig:lt even now be l a id to th e woun d ed sense o f h ono ur of the nation, r-3 a Great and Independent Power. Every. thing that needs to be known in regard to the actual seizure is known—bet not so is it in regard to the correspondence and negotiations that led to that most extraordinary interposition en the part of her MAJZSTY'S Government. It was for the production of that c orrespondence—hitherto denied to the House and to the Country, with so many other i mpor tant doeuments-eit was for the tardy expla nation of what really constituted, th os d very dubi ous and still unexplained negotiations, that the hon. gentleman moved last e vening, and moved, as th e event proved, in vein. But 153 s u p port i ng Mr. S EYMOUR FITZGERALD . S InOtiOn, while 178 voted against it—thereby enabling the Government to tide over that difficulty, as it seems, bent as lo ng as pos sible upon tiding over others, by maintaining an obdurate silence and a resolute determination to combine Reticence with Non-Intervention (that spurious, left-handed kind of I;9e-intervention which Lord DERBY defined so happily as an union of meddling with muddling) in the carrying out of their incoherent and eccen tric scheme of diplomacy. Not satisfied, however, with, meddling and muddling—not satisfied with writing a great deal and doing nothing—the Government in its Foreign Policy appears to be bent beyond all things upon securing itself from anything like adverse commentary by declining to publish despatches, or by withholding them from the knowledge of Parliament as long as they might prove upon trial to be in some way practicable —leaving the chance of some happy re sult in regard to every one of their many dilemmas, to work itself out somehow through the mare chapter of accidents. From the tone adopted by Ministers, however, and by some of those important subordinates of theirs, who are thrust into the van in these discussion—it would appear that the Cabinet not only requires the House of Commons to wait patiently for any papers that in the fullness of time the Government may, upon deliberate con sideration, make up its mind at last grudg ingly to vouchsafe them, but that it requires some thing still more ! Beyond that—the Cabinet seems arrogantly to go EO far in what Mr. DISRAELI bluntly calls its " scurvy" treatment of the House in regard to papers relating now to America, now to Poland, now to Den mark, that it actually manifests a com plaisant expectation that the House should meekly wait their (the Ministers') good will and pleasure in these matters of vital and most momentous im portance, that the House should actually wait, like the cattle in a storm as described by the Poet of the Seasons, that is to say—" in dumb expectancy !' Parliament has been won derfully patient hitherto in conceding time to a vaccillating and a self-contradictory Ad ministration.: The House of Commons especially has evinced as extraordinary amount of patience in reference to the long-withheld papers referring to the Danish War—whatever may be thought to the contrary by a fretful Chancellor of the Exchequer, a petulant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, or an irritated Attorney-General. The reiterated inter ruptions of the debate last evening by Sir ROI/N -DELL PALMIER were not easily to be paralleled for frequency upon reference to the back volumes of "Hansard," Not satisfied with havinglhis own "say" himself, quite uninterruptedly, he seemed unable altogether to allow the enjoyment of the same privi lege by his opponents. Point blank, contradictions, vexatious carpings at a phrase, teasing explanations of a parenthetical character were squandered about him yesterday during the debate in the House of Commons, with a petulant intolerance of opinions in any way adverse to his own, quite un befitting the First Law Officer of the Crown, from whom, in truth, in regard to all these kinds of vexed questions, one would rather look for the evidence of an undisturbed equanimity. Everything considered, in regard to the debate of last night—while the immediate result of it, we repeat, was naturally in the highest degree delightful to our bewildered Government, the ultimate effect produced upon the public mind by the arguments (oddly terminating in that division) cannot, we would also repeat, but be in the highest degree salutary. A brief debate took place in the Commons on Monday evening, which was well worthy of public attention, and which, had it not followed so closely on the animated discussion respecting the non•pro duction of the Danish papers, would, probably have attracted more notice at the time. It concerned the construction of the new Admiralty docks about to be made at the head of the Maras., at Malta, against the distinct advice of the best informed and most competent authorities. Captain TALBOT, who brought forward a motion on this subject, was anxious before the Navy Estimates came on that the House should have an opportunity of at least hearing the facts of the case, although, from a matter of form, he was on Monday evening pre vented from pressing his motion to a division. The dock proposed, ho said, would neither answer the purposes of the naval service nor of the commercial shipping of the island. The disadvantages of the scheme are very great, and affect every part of it. In the first place, the spot selected . is nearly two miles from the dockyard, end diffis cult of access. Admiral Sir WILLIAM MARTIN sad Vice-Admiral CODRINGTON, who are both fami liar with the place and the reciairemento -of the Navy, are most strongly opp',sed to it. air War, LIAM MARTIN has been Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean for the; last three years, and is fully able to judge the - 4 afi 0 fairly and impartially. So strong are t:ae gallant officer's opinions on this matter, ti - at he has suggested that Admiral COD. RINGT.ON should be allowed to come home for the a - sprees purpose of pointing out the grave errors of the Admiralty scheme, and the immense advantages of that plan which must at once commend itself to the approval of anyone who knows the island—i. e., the selection of the French Creek. This Creek, which the Admiralty themselves are forced to admit is vastly superior to the proposed site, has a fine natural basin, which will with ease receive the largest ships. The Government has gone to great expense to get this Creek, which is only about 300 yards from the dockyard, and which possesses every recommendation for the proposed undertaking, and then with the ingenious perversity and wronghead edness so often perceptible in our naval arrange ments, they go nearly two miles off to construct a dock in a place which has not ono single qualifica tion for it. It is not surprising that the opinions of the whole naval service are decidedly opposed to such a preposterous scheme, more especially when we remember the importance of the new dock. We have only two small docks in the Mediterranean that are capable of receiving ships draw ing twenty-two feet of water, and these it is plain would not accommodate our large line-of battle ships when loaded. So long ago as 1861 Admiral CODRINGTON drew the attention of the Admiralty to this subject, pointing out the inCon venienclea which might result from the delay entailed by having to send home British vessels that needed repair while foreign vessels can have theirs and he at sea again in a few days. It is absurd that we should have no dock capable of receiving a first-class vessel without guns, stores, and even machinery being removed. It is true that Lord C. PAGET maintains that the Royal Oak and the Resistance could both go into the prscnt Dock yard Creek, but this may turn out to be another of the noble lord's " mistakes." The opinions of engineers sent out by the Admiralty are worth about as much as those of first-rate advocates specially retained on one hide. They are certainly not to be set against men like Admiral CODRING TON and Mniiral MAuTIN, who have the rt quire tnents of the service in view, and being on the spot can surely decide upon the natural eiplcitiss of the sites proposed. As Sir JOHN :PAILINGTON very truly said, it is not an engineer's question but an Admiralty question, concerning the conl(e. nience of the British fleet. It seems that in 1860 the Admiralty entered iota an arrangement with the Maltese authorities by which they acquired a large creek in the vicinity of the dockyard, agree ing to deepen the Mersa for the use of the commer cial shipping. Part of this arrangement was that what was called the north - wtst basin should be constructed with a depth of 12 feet for the use of the commercial shipping. But it will be necessary in order to get access to the dock to shipping. Sub• sequently the Admiralty adopted the present extravagant scheme—that a first-class dock, capable of accommodating the Warrior, should be con structed on the inner side of the north-west basin. But to get access to this dock, it becomes neces sary to deepen the basin from 1 1 .2 to 30 feet, which, of course, will entail heavy expense. It is, too, to be at right angles with the basin, so that a ship in entering it will have to turn nearly round, thus producing a confusion that may be better imagined than described, when a heavy ship some hundreds of feet in length is sent amongst the crowded mer chant shipping. The rock is full of ffisures and flaws, thereby entailing the expense or facing the dock with masonry, and rendering tie Admiralty esti mate of £50,000 for deepening the basin and con structing the dock simply ridiculous. There is no detailed plan cr estimate for the scheme produ cible, and unless it is looked to we shall probably have a second edition of the affair at ,Alderney, where the original estimates have been already exceeded by a very large amount. The additional vote was absolutely necessary if we did not wish the whole of the previous outlay to be thrown away. And after all that has been done there it is more than questionable it any good has been effected at all. Holyhead, which might have been made a splendid harbour, has had its utility greatly im paired by ite limited extent. We recently had an instance of this when the Prince Consort was com pelled to run over to the Irish coast, being afraid to risk entering Holyhead. Portland, which is the best we have yet constructed, would have been far more efficacious had the southern arm of the breakwater been carried out from a point further down the island, and a larger space enclosed; ena bling ships to lie under the shelter of the island itself, and not as at present be exposed to the force of the south westerly wind blowing across the Chesil Bank. The French greatly eclipse us in these matters, not from superior engineering capa city, but from the more liberal and enlightened views of their governing authorities. The public had better be warned by past experience of Admiralty bungling, and inquire into this Malta project a little more closely, If the Government have committed themselves to the Maltese autho rities they had better pay for their mistake and let the matter end there. It would be far cheaper and better than undertaking a work of such cost and importance, under such serious drawbacks, when the French Creek offering so many superior advan r tages is lying at their disposal. Lord SALISBURY last night very properly called at tention to the convict system. He moved fur a return of the "number of convicts under penal servitude confined in gaols other than Govc, , rnmeut prisons in 1862 and 1803;" oleo what steps had been taken to carry out the recommendations of the Commission on Penal Servitude. This last was a very necessary item in the demand, since nothing is more common than for a Government to put off inquiry and com plaint by instituting a commission, and then not to attend to the recommendations that are given. Lord CARNARTON made some observations on the subject, and truly characterised it as a "monstrous anomaly" in English justice that heavier offences often meet higher punishments, and vice versa. It is well known that a short period at a county gaol is more stringent than some years of penal servitude. The prisoners invariably precer the Government part of the affair to the ordinary gaols. Lord CAB.- 14.A.11170N'S remarks on this subject are always well worthy of attention, both from his lordship having studied the case in all its bearings, and also for the enlightened views which he entertains regarding the question. He quoted a report which proved that on one occasion the convicts in one prison were attacked by some disease, and it was the opinion of medical men that it arose chicfly from the rich ness of their food. " In consequence of this the ox-head cheeks were withheld from the soup, and the men's health improved." This is perfectly ridiculous, and it is quite cut of character that such luxuries should be provided for men under sentence of punishment for the commission of heinous offences. It is actually holding out an encouragement to lazy and e:elfish men to get into a place of this sort, where their appetites may be pampered and their idleness indulged. The more publicity that is given to these facts, the better it will be for the public service, and then, perhaps, the authorities will be shamed out of their persistence in improper indulgences to the convicts. This false system of palliation re sults in the worse effects, both for the men them. selves and the society amongst which they are placed long before their original term is expired. It is not a fair test of conduct either to judge of them by their behaviour during their confinement, when they are thus pampered and coddled. It is not likely that they will be tempted to rebel against such mild treatment, or become restless and unman ageabl© when humoured to the last degree, and every possible device is resorted to, to keep them quiet and satisfied. If sterner plans were adopted and more vigorous discipline enforced, then a better notion might be formed of the t ffect which the penal servitude was bearing on their characters. As it is, we have the best grounds for asserting that the men are made worse during their period of detention, and come out with re newed vigour to prosecute their nefarious under takings, Of course there are notable exceptions, but as a rule it will be found that very little progress, if any, is made in the reformation of our criminal population. Lord CARNARYON put the case very forcibly, when he said that to be successful, either one plan or another ought to be adopted, and that the Home Secretary was trying too much to take " a scrap of one system and a scrap of another, until the whole system adopted became incomprehensible and remarkable.' There is great truth in this, and it would be well if more heed was paid to this suggestion. Either to adopt the practice of tiekets.ot-leave, coupled with police supervision, or else to throw the system overboard, and attempt another, is the advice tendered by Lord CARNARTON, and it certainly seems to be sound. It is evident that what is wanted imperatively at present is a radical nhange in our system of penal servitude ; and the question is whether the temporising efforts and feeble legislation which is now in vogue will be capable of effecting the desirable and most necessary alteration. There is too much patching up of difficulties, and two much dawdling and hesitation in all the legislation that is brought forward on the subject, and it is most urgent that new the case is egain one of the chief social dis cussions of the day, some testing and excel , lent arrangements be made, or eta all thiS bicker ing and debate will result in grievous harm, and be worse in the end than if matters had rested in statu quo. The criminals will exult at the nc,cy of our efforts to control them, and thus an ad ditional evil will have been effected. This is the proper time for those who have objections to state them, and for those who have suggestions to make to bring them forward, or else the opportunity will be lost. The Government are, doubtless, animated with the best intentions, but they are too timid in the theuurea they adopt. They had hotter come forward. boldly, and with a strong hand and vigorous will put down the growing evil that threatens to overpower the order and morality of. our commu nity. As Lord GREY observed, it is much to be deplored that we should have a system of penal discipline which does nothing to render more Effec tive the punishment previously apportioned to cri minals, and subject the country to the accumulated numbers of discharged convicts. Opening of the British Museum, ece„ on Sundays. DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMERSTOI`.T. (THIS DAY.) This mornin?; a very numerous depuation from the trades of the metropolis had an interv;ew with Lord Pal rnerston at Cambridge-house, Piccadilly, for the purpose of upon his lordship the propriety of opening the British Museum, National Gallery, &c., on Sunday after noons, The members of the deputation having been introduced, Mr. WHITE stated the object of the present deputation, and impressed upon his lc rdship the great benefit that would result both morally and socially to the working classes if the noble institutions alluded to were open on Sunday. The only attraction on Sunday open to the work ing man, unless be undertook a journey some consider able distance from his home, was the public house, and it was of the greatest importance that something more elevating should be placed within his. reach. The Shvepshanks collection had been accepted by the nation with the knowledge that one of the chief inducements which led to its presentation, viz., its being open on the Sunday, was as distant as ever. _ _ Several of the deputies present then addressed his lord ship. Some of them remarked on the encouragement in other countries to the working class to study art..—whilst those in England were only enabled to do so at a sacrifice of a day's wages. His TIORDSIIIP, in reply, said he believed the produe lions of the Englishman quite equal to that of the foreigner. With respect to the objc ct of the deputation, he believed his opinions were pretty well known—(hear, hear)—but he must remind them that there was a very strong feeling the other way. He thought the most prudent course to pursue at present was to remain passive until public opinion was brought round to the objcct in view, and in the meantime he advised them to inculcate their opinions, and thus hasten on the accomplishment of their desire. _ Mr. J. KENNY reminded his lordship that it was not a new course they were then pursuing. There were kindred institutions to the British Museum already open on Sundays, and all they desired was that the Government should go on and open others nearer home. The National Gallery of Ire land, whichhad been thrown open on Sundays, testified to the good results certain to follow the opening of the Museum and National Gallery on Sundays to the working classes of England. Having thanked his lordship for the interview, the depu tation wi,hdrew. Public Executions, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1564. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—My recent perusal in The Sun of the account of the execution of the five pirates at Newgate—a sight which, 1 suppose, has not been witnessed since the memorable execution of Thistlewood and the Cato-street conspirators in the year 1820, when I believe six men were hanged at Newgate—has reminded me of my description of a London execution—when only one man was hanged—in the year 1856, and which I described in my recent book, "Curiosi ties of Occult Literature," reviewed in The Sun Bth Sep tember last, In that book I alluded to that interesting work, " Boswell's Life of Johnson," where the great moralist regretted the recent removal of executions from Tyburn Gate to the Old Bailey. It is singular that the plan of hanging at the Old Bailey should have survived even the removal of Smithfield Market On the 231 June, 1781-80 years since, less four months --Boswell saw fifteen men hanged in that same place— part of a batch of 21 persons sentenced to death. " They came upon the scaffold a little before seven o'clock ; the platform dropped about a quarter before eight, and at the same moment they were all launched into eternity. The windows and roofs of the houses were crowded, and many thousands of people were assembled in the Old Bailey." Then, as on Monday, the 22d that,. although the ribaldry, coarse language, and general character of King Mob of 1781 and of 1861 may be identical, it is at least satisfactory to know that the prison discipline of Newgate has been improved, and that such a rare popular spectacle in all human probability will never again occur in London. — Yours, obediently. THE ..kuinoit or " OURT43ITIES or OCCULT LITER4TVI3,I4." 23d February, 1861. " SOIIN IN A MESS I ''—Surely nothing can well be funnier, or more aptly to the pUrpose,than Tenniel's cartoon in the new number of Punch, published this afternoon :—" Mrs. Britannia—Put down that Pen directly, you troublesome boy. A nice mess yon have got yourself into!" It is a comic sketch coming so exactly " pat " to the ocoasion—with a very aplomb of truthfulness, amounting to pictorial wit —that it forms a worthy companion cartoon to that famous ono years and years ego in Punch, representing Mrs. Peel wringing her hands at the plight of Master James Graham (after the latter had been rolling in the mud and making dirt pit: B ) with a—" Drat that boy, he's always in a mess!" NATIONAL GRANTS FOR STATUARY.—The Nelson I Column has, sines 1858, been honoured with an aggregate of grants amounting to £26,800. In 1851, the statue of Charles 1., at Charing Cross, cost £I,000; in the same year, £2,500 was granted for royal monuments in Westminster Abbey. In 1842, an equestrian statue of George IV. is entered for £6,301 ; and we find the pedestal of Baran Marochetti's Richard Ccour-de-Lion cost £1,650. In the three years 1843-4.5, a total of £1,500 was paid for monuments to Lords Exmouth and Do Saumaurcz, and Sir Sidney Smith. This grant is humorously placed under the head of ' Educa tion, Science, and Art.' In 1858, £20,000 was voted for a statue of the Duke of Wellington; the Havelock statue at Woolwich is charged at £3,152; and on the now lonely shore of Scutari a noble monument has been placed, which is said to have cost £17,500. Far Sir John Franklin a statue has been raised, which in 1855 cost the modest sum of £BOO, and again in 1863 a similar amount,--t: ombers's Journal, New and Improved Series. THE PROCESS OF Benin' once begun, an in definite multiplication of sects follows, until we arrive at the ultimate result in the following list of deno minations taken from the American census :—" Democratic Gospel, Ebenezer Socialists, Now-lights, Tunkers, Supera lists, Cosmopolites, Free Enquirers, Children of Peace, Inspired Church, Pathonites, Believers in God, Perfection ists, Spiritualists, Universalists, Puritans, Hopkinsonians, Moderate Calvinists, Strict Calvinists, Destructionists, Restorationists, Denials of Original Sin (? Pelagiane), Pre existents, Sand-killers, Soul-sleepers, Come-outers, Lutherans, Churchmen, Congregationalists, Hardshells, Roman Catholics, Rationalists, Methodists, Christiana (denying the Trinity), Q ua k ers , Unitarians, Moravians, German Reformed, Dutch Reformed, S wedenbor gians, Socinians, Shakers, Independents, Methodists,Epie copalians, North Episcopalians, South Episcopalians, Seventh-day Baptists, Campbellite Baptists, Freewill Baptists, Ironside Baptists, Six-principle Baptists, North Presbyterians (Anti-Slavery), South Presbyterians (Pro- Slavery), Old School Presbyterians, New School Presby terians, Cumberland Presbyterians, Associate Presby terians, Reformed Presbyterians, Associate Reformed Presbyterians." LITERARY NEWS,—The following new books arc announced by Mr. Bentley:--'rho third and fourth volumes of the " Dean of Chichester's Lives of the Arch bishops of Canterbury," bring the history down to the'Re formation. " Memoirs of a Minister of State," by M. Gaizot, from the year 1840. A third edition of the Rev. T. Bontell's " Heraldry : Historical and Popular," with 850 illustrations, of which work two large editions were absorbed in one year. " Viscountess Strangford's Eastern Shores of the Adriatic," with chromo-lithograph illustrations and 'photographs. " Legends of Iceland," translated by George E. J. Poweli and Eniker Magnusson, profusely illustrated by Zwecker, &c. "In Spain : a Narrative by Hans Chris tian Andersen, the Danish Poet, of his Wanderings in the Peninsula, in 1863," in one volume. " A Century of Anec dotes, from 1750 to 1850," by John Ticabs ; and "St. Petersburg and Warsaw : stirring scenes witnessed during a residence in Russia and Poland, during 1863-64," in one volume, with portraits of Mouravieff and the Grand Duchess Constantine and her family. Of new novels, among the most popular of the season are—" Bella Donna," " Wylder's Hand," by the author of " The House by the Churchyard ; " Meadowleigh," by the author of " The Ladies of Bever Hollow;" " The Shadow of Ashlydyat," by the author of " East Lynne;" and " Old Court," by the author of " Whitefriars." SITE OF ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—The question between the Corporation of London and the Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital is now directly raised by the filing, yesterday, of a bill in Chancery by the Governors against the Corporation of London, join'ly with Mr. Scott, the Chamberlain. to restrain the corporation from using a cer tain retainer to the City Solicitor, sealed by the corporation, and from affixing the hospital seal to any instruments with out the previous consent of the governors. This proceed ing, involves the whole questi on of the power of the Corpo ration to interfere in their corporate capacity in the matter of the future site of this invaluable charity. Tho sealing or, the retainer without the intervention of the donation governors is raid to have been done at the suggestion of the Attorney-General. A NEW AND COMPLETE,EDITION OF THE WORKS or THE roaTE Sus B. C. Bnonrr. will shortly be pub lished by the Messrs, Longman. It will be edited by Dr Charles llawkins. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LEEIITER'S TELEGRAMS.] All EIC A, (Per the America.) NEW YORK, FEB, 12 (Evening). Newbern adviees to the 7th inst. report the Con federates to be again threatening the Federal com munications around Neivbern. They have an iron clad vessel at Kingston which will co=operate in their hostile movement. The Richmond papers of the sth report that Gen. Sherman's whole force advanced from Vicks burg across by the Black River, from whence it is supposrd be will advance to "Muridan and unite with a cavalry force moving along the line of the Mississippi, and an infantry force advancing from Natchez. Sherman's movement is said to be made in order to flank Johnston and Hardee in Alabama and Georgia, rather than to attack Mobile. The Confederates are still in force at Dalston, Georgia. Admiral Porter is fitting out a formidable fleet on the Mississippi. General Meade nude a speech at Philadelphia, stating that since March, 1801, 100,000 men of the Potomac army have been killed and wounded. The German Republicans of New Jersey de clare in favour of Butler, Freemont, or any other Radical candidate for the Presidency, who will guarantee an emancipation and confiscation policy. The Halifax Admiralty Court has restored the Chesapeake and her cargo to the owners on the payment of'the legal expenses. The City of Washington, the City of Cork, the China, and the Olympus have arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK. FEB. 12th, Evening. Money extremely easy at 6to 7 per cent. Gold 59'4 :per cent. premium. Exchange on London, 1741. Exchange on Paris, 3 201. Stocks quiet. New York Centrals, 131. Illinois, 131, Erie, 1121. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 82c. Flour and wheat declining. Corn quiet. Provisions a good enquiry. Coffee firm and advancing. Sugar and molasses steady. Petroleum very firm; crude, 29 to 311, refined, 45 to 47. NEW YORK, FEB. 13 (Morning). A large Feder& expedition, with three gunboats, left Port Royal on the sth inst. and landed at Jack sonville, Florida, on the Bth, from which place it was reported they would proceed to Tallahassee. General Gilmore left Port Royal on the 7th to join this expedition. Admiral Dahlgren has left Charleston in the flag ship for St. John's, Florida. The British gunboat Petrel arrived at Charleston on the sth, wishing to communicate with the British Consul at Savannah. Admiral Dahlgren refused permission, and the Petrel put to sea. It is said that the Petrel brought despatches for the Confe rateSecretary Benjamin. Oa the night of the 2d a large steamer entered Charleston harbour, unobserved by the Federal fleet, and was not discovered until the morning of the 3d, when she had run aground and was landing her cargo under the guns of Fort Moultrie. The Federal batteries opened on her and shortly after wards she sank. The Conscription Bill has passed Congress. Slaves between the ages of 14 and 45 are liable to be dratted ; loyal owners to be compensated. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold 591 per cent. premium. A large advance taken place in Federal Securities. United States Coupons Sixes are now quoted 110. The America brings 35 bags of mails, 123 passen gers, 176,875 dots. in specie for England, 141,223 do!s. for France, 500 doll, for Bremen, and 1,000 tons of cargo. THE WAR IN SCHLESWIG. England has invited the German Federation and the Powers which signed the 1852 Treaty to a Con ference in London. No suspension of arms. General Manteuffel is gone to Vienna about Jutland affairs. VIENNA, FEB. 23. The Conferences proposed by England for the settlement of the question relative to the German Duchies have been accepted by Austria and PrUSSifl. Orders will be issued not to advance further into Tutiand. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 23, 8,50 P.m. The Government has published the following official communication : Twelve Austrian war vessels have been ordered to the Mediterranean and the English Channel to cruise in search of Danish ships. The Secretaries of the Danish Legations at Berlin and Vieuna have been recalled. The Secretary of the Austrian Legation at Copen hagen has already left. The authorities of Hamburg have seized the money in the Danish post-office in that city: Reported Concentration of Prussian Troops on the Polish Frontier, BRESLAU, FEB. 23 (Evening.) A rumour that 60,000 Prussian troops. will be concentrated on the frontier of the kingdom' of Poland. SPAIN. MADRID, FEB. 23. A Bill for a new electoral law has been brough forward in the Cortes. FRANCE. PARIS, FEB. 22 (Morning). The Constautionnel of to-day, in an article signed by U. Limayrac, expresses regret that the Dano-berman conflict has been aggravated by an invasion of Jutland. The writer continues--" England has requested explanations from the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin.. The replies may be ingenious, but they cannot be entirely satisfactory. Nothing proves, however, that England will not be contented with them." BOURSE, Feb. 23.—The market has not been very animated, but the business done shows an improve ment on yesterday's quotations. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 55c. Mobilier have ad vanced to 1,060 f. Railway Market quiet, but firm The market cloaed as follows : 41 per Cents 95 70 Do. end month.. •• 3 per Cents GG GO Do. end month 66 66 Credit Mobilier 10 65 Do. end month 1070 Bank Shares 3290 Credit Fonder 1265 Roman Italian Loan 63 ,Do. end month — New ditto Do. end month — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 5l florae Debt Deferred BAIL Cash. , Account. 1003 7.5 .. ]OO5 95+Z .50 95 5 OrlaflTD; Northern .... New ditto Lyou2 and Idediturranean New ditto Southern Western -. • - 942 60 .. 937 50 887 60 .. 661 25 .. 663 - 520 - • • - Eastern Sardinian Austrian Loxrlyird • 517 60 .. 518 75 North of Spain Saragossa 687 60 .. 586 26 Ditto to i3areolona ~ , - . 4 300 LITERATURE. For Better for Worse : A E. , ,marce of the Affec xtions. Edited by Edmund Yates. John 14,1 a- well and Co., Fleet-street. The story commences with a consultation between Margaret, and Ralph Atherton, the eldest son and daughter of the lately deceased Dean of Wylminster, relative to their own future prospects, and also as to the means by which they are to secure the sup port of a stepmother and the children of the second marriage. Their father has left but trifling means at their dispasal, and his wife being rather a silly and frivolous person, ho particularly recommends the. care of his family to his eldest daughter Margaret, when dying. She proposes to de vote her entire energies to fulfil his intentions and becomes a parish schoo!mistrese, to enable her to furnish his annual allowance to ttee youngest half-brother, a midshipman, without erldeli he can not continuo in the navy. IL r talehfs wra so great, and the arrangement of the school so perfect, that she acquires the friendship of the clergyman of the parish, and attracts the attention of the neighbour ing gentry, who are not only anxious to adopt her system, but desirous cf securing her services for themselves. Meantime the youngest sister of the family, Ethelind, is invited on a visit to Lady ,ii,epworth's and there meets Sir Philip Leigh, a man of large fortune and ancient lineage, who falls desperately in love with her, and subsequently marries her in opposition to the advice of his mother, and the sneers of his sisters, two rather fast young ladies, who consider Ethelind as far beneath his and their social position. Piqued by their contempt for his wife's family, Sir Philip Leigh determines that she shall hold no communication with them after her marriage. And here commences poor Ethe lind's troubles. RalphAther•ten has become a clergy man, and accepts a curacy in the parish of Reden ham, of which Sir Philip Leigh is the sole proprie tor. The title and estates have come to him by the death of his cousin, who was killed by accident, and the family place has been uninhabited for many years; but it is now fitted up for the reception of the bride and bridegroom. Until then Ralph Ather• ton was ignorant of Ethelind's marriage with his parishioner, and learning that Sir Philip has treated the other members of his family with greet discour tesy, he absents himself from the public reception. Whi!o Sir Philip, learning who he is, suppoSes he has got himself appointed to the parish for the pur pose of forcing his acquaintance on him, he be comes furious, and acting under his imperative injunctions Ethelind is obliged publicly to " cut" her brother and family in the church on Sunday. After such an insult, although very poor, having resigned a fellowship to marry a girl with out fortune, Ralph throws up his curacy, and goes elsewhere. Ultimately he inherits a large fortune from a relative. After many bickerings, arising chiefly from the interference of his mother and sisters, Sir Philip, now become Lord Redenham, separates from his wife. But they are again recon ciled by the good offices of Lord Redcar, aparticular friend, who marries Grace Atherton, and of Mar garet, now estimated at her just worth by Lord Redenhani. At his house she meets Captain ViVyan, a former lover, who had jilted her, but he now renews his suit, and they are married, so all ends happily for all parties. "For Better for Worse" is a truly moral book, which may with safety and even advantage be placed in youthful hands, for it instructs as wall as amuses, thus ful filling what ought to be the object even of a romance. The incidents are all quite natural, although the interest never flags, and there is not one expression, from beginning to end, which could give umbrage to the most delicate mind. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 23. THE STEAM RAMS AT BIRKENHEAD. ALtion made and question put, "That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this house copies of all correspondence between the various departments of her Majesty's Government, or officers in her Majesty's service, and Messrs. Laird Brothers, relating to the two ironclad vessels, El Tousson and El Monassia, building by that firm, and seizA by order of her Majesty's Government ; and of any papers or correspondence that have passed between her Majesty's Government and the Government of the United States, or their representative, Mr. Adams, relating to the said vessels." The house divided—Ayes, 153; Noes, 178. AYES -153. -- -- Adderley, C. B. Graham, Lord Wm. Northcote, Sir S. H. Addington, Hon.W. Greaves, Edward l'acke, C. Mlle, H. J. Greenall, G. Pakington, Sir J. S. Bar ttelot, Col. Grey deWilton,Lord Parker, Major W. Bathurst, A. A. Grogan, Sir E. Peel, Gen. Beach, W. W. Haliburton, T. C. Pevensey, Viscount Bective, Earl of Hamilton, Lord C. Powell, F. S. Beecroft, G. S. Hardy, Gathorne Re ton, G. W. J. Benyon, R. *Harvey, It. B. Ridley, Sir M. W. Bernard, Col. Hassard, M. D. Roebuck, J. A. Bernard, Thos. T. Hay, Sir J Rogers, John J. Blake, J. A. Heathcote, Sir W. Rolt, J. Bovill, Wm. Henniker, Lord Rowley, Hon. R. T. Bramley-Moore, J. Hill, Hon. R. Sclater-Booth, G, Bramston, T. W. Hodgson, R. Selwyn, C. J. Bridges, Sir B. Hopwood, J. T. Smith, Abel , Bruce, C. L. C. liumphory, W. Smith, S. G. Bruce, Sir H. Hunt, G. W. Smollett, P. Burghley, Lord Ingestre, Viscount Somes, Joseph Cairns, Sir H. Jervis , Capta i n Stanho p e, J. B. Cartwright, Col. Jolliffe, H. Stanhope, Lord Cecil, Lord R. Kekewich, S. Stanley, Lord Chapman, J. Knatchbull, W. Stewart, Sir M. R. Clifton, Sir R. Knox, Col. Stuart, Lt.-Col. W. Close, M. C. Lacon, Sir E. Stracey, Sir H. Cobbold, John C. Laird , Sturt, Lt-Col. N. Cole, Hon. 11. Langton, W. G. Sullivan, M. Collins, T. Leader, N. Talbot, Hon. W. C. Cubitt, George Leeke, Sir H. Taylor, Colonel Curzon, Viscount Lennox, Lord G. G. Thynne, Lord E. Dawson, E.. P. Lennox, Lord H. G. Thynne, Lord H. Dickson, Col. Lindsay, W. S. Tollemache, J. H. Disraeli, Benjamin Longfield, Robert Tottenham,Lt.-Col. Drax, J. E. Lovame, Lord Trefusis, Hon. C. H. Du Cane, C. Lyall, G. Turner, C. Dunne, Col. Lygon, lion. F. Vance, John Du Fre, C. Macaulay, K. Verner, E: W. Edwards, Col. Macdonogh, F. Vyse, Co!. Egerton, A. F. MacEvoy, E. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Egerton, E. C. Malcolm, J. W. Walker, James it, Fane, Col. Malins, H. Walpole, S. H. Farquhar, Sir M. Manners, Lord J. Walsh, Sir J. B. Fellowes, Edward Maxwell, Col. Wat l ington, J. Ferrand, W. Milford, W. T. Welby, W. E. Fleming, T. W. Montagu, Lord It. Wyndham, Hon. H. Forester, Gen. Montgomery, Sir G. Wyndham, Hon. P. Fraser, Sir W. A. 3lorritt, W. Wynn, C. W. W. Galway, Viscount Mowbray, Rt. Ha. J. Yorke, Hon. E. Gard, R. S. Mure, David Yorke, J. H. George, John Naas, Lord TELLERS. Gilpin, Colonel Noel, G. J. Horsiall, T. B. Gore, J. H. 0. North, Col. Fitzgerald, W. S. NOES —l7B. Angerstein, W. Forster, W. E. Neate, C. Annesley, CoL H. Foster, W. 0. North, F. Antrobus, E. Fortescue, Hon. F. O'Brien, Sir P. Aytoun. R. S. Fortescue, C. S. O'Hagan, T. Bagwell, J. Gavin , Major Paget , C . Baes, E. ilibson. T. M. Paget, Lord A. Baring, H. B. Gilizin, C. Paget, Lord C. E. Baring, Sir F. Gladstone, W. E. Palmer, Sir R. Baring, Thomas Glyn, G. G. Paxton, Sir J. Baring, Thos. Geo. Goldsmid, Oir F. Pease, H. Barnes, T. Goschen, G. J. Peel, Sir R. Bass, 31. T. Gower, G. W. L. Peel, F. Baxter, W. E. Greene, J. Peel, J. Bazley, Thomas Gregson, S. 1-'^ to, Sir M. ... • Beale, Samuel Gtenfell, 11. B. pia,:ngton, James Beaumont, W. B. Grey, Sir G. Pinney; Col. Beaumont,Somerset Grosvenor, Earl Pollard Crcluhart W Bellew, R. 31. Hadfield, Geo. Ponsonby, A. Berkeley, C. Handley, John Potter, L. Black, Adam Hardcastle, Jos. A. Powell, J. Blencowe, J. G. Hartington,Marquis Pritchard, John Bonham-Carter, J. *Harvey, R. B. Proby, Lord G. L; Bouverie, E. P. Henderson, J. Ricardo, 0. Bruce, H. A. Henley, Lord Robartes, T. J. A. Buchanan, W. Herbert, H. A. Russell, Hastings Buller, SirA. Bibbert, J. T. Russell, A. J. E. Bury, Viscount Hodgkinson, G. Salomong,Aiderman Butt, Isaac B odgson, K. Scholefie,d, W. Buxton, C. Howard, Hon. C. Seely, C. Caird, James Butt, W. Seymour, Danby Calthorpe, F. H. Ingham, R. Seymour, A Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Jackson, W. Shelley, Sir J. V, Carnegie,Hn. C. Johnstone, Sir J. Sheridan, R. B. Castlerosse, Vist. Kershaw, J. Smith, J. B. Clay, James King, Hon. P. Smith, M. T. Clifford, C. C. Kinglake, A. W. Smith, Augustus Cobbett, J. M. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Smith, J. A. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Knatchbull-Ilugess Stacpoole, W. Collier, Sir R. P. Layard, A. H. Stansfeld, J. Colthurst„' Sir G. Langton, W. H. G. Tollemache, Hon.F, Cox, W. Lanigan , J. Tracy, Hon. C. Craufurd, E. H. J. Lawson, W. Turner, J. A. Crawford, R. W. ',Gotham, E. Tynte, CoL K. Crossley, Sir F. Lefevre, G. J. S. Vane, Lord H. G. Dalglish, Robert Lee, W. Verney, Sir Harry Davie, Col. F. Levinge, Sir R.G.A. Vernon, H. Denman, G. _Lloyd, T. , Villiers, Rt. Hon. C. Dillwyn, Lewis L. Locke, John Warner, Edward Dodson, John G. Lowe, lit. Hon. R. Watkins, Ccl. L. Duff, 31. E. • Mackie, J. Western, S. Duff, R. Mackinnon, W.(Ly.)Westhead, J. Duke, Sir James 3larjoribanks, D. C. Whitbread, S. Dundas, Frederick Marshall, W. White, Jas. Dundas, Sir David Martin, J. White, L. Dunlop, A. Matheson, A. Wood, Sir C. Enfield, Viscount Merry, Jollies Wyld, James Eyttfis, T, W. .Mlldmay, 11. liwart, William Mills, J. It. Finch, C. W. 31oncreiff, J. Foley, H. W. Morris, D. Forster, Charles D. Morrison, W TELLERS. Brand, H. B. Dunbar, Sir Wm. Oddly enough, it will be seen from the foregoing Division List, copied into our columns exactly as it is given in the Parliamentary Papers—that Mr. Robert Bateson Harvey appears both in the majority and in the minority, as though he were "two gentlemen in one," according to Mrs. Malaprop. "THE CrIANNINGSr BY MRS, WOOD, has been translated into French by Madame Abrie-Encountre. . - MRS. WILKINS, WIDOW OF THE LATE SERGEANT WILKINS, is playing a successful engagement at Walhick's Theatre, New York. A VERITABLE CENTENARIA.N.An authentic can of a aged 112," certified by baptismal register book of Proscot Church, stating that the old lady was born on the 24th of May, 1751 ,4 coil I A, lIER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 2 3 . Her Mijesty th© Queen, attended by the lion. Mrs. Bruce and Lieutenant-General the 1 1 °' C Grey, went up to London. this morning an d honoured the Countess of Elgin with a visit. The Queen returned after tvards to Windsor Castle' _- Return of the Prince and Princess of Wales from St. Leonards• d pripcoo s Their Royal .Highneeees the Prince an of Wales concluded their visit to St. Leonards ye!: terday and arrived in London accompanied by ? a ; infant prince. The journey was made by a * ec t. l he train on the South-Eastern Railway, and in handsome state carriage belonging to the eomPa-di Their Royal Highnesses left Starkey, s B° a b , Victoria Hotel about half-past eleven, at tend en the Hon. Mrs. E. Coke, Lieutenant-General:K-01st' and Major Teesdale, and on arriving at the „„ -- c - , Leonards station of the South-Eastern ComPc;d were received by the Mayor of St. Leonards he Hastings, who was accompanied by so me °f , t of aldermen and the town clerk, and on t he Per" n the South-Eastern Company by Captain Werresi one of the directors, Mr. C. W. Eborall , the gecera manager, and Mr. J. P. Knight, the traoe seP eri tendent: rt abls The weather at Hastings afforded an e g re "of contrast to that prevailing in London at the til3eas departure, for while in the metropolis sne w ti faking heavily, and the atmosphere wa n a nd a gloomy, at S. Leonards there was a bright over clear sky, and the sun shed a genial w armth sea and land. • The train left the station at 11.40, under the ecn; trot of Mr. Knight (who rode on the locoosotileld and after a quick run Tunbridge-wells wa s reaebe at 12.30. No other stoppage was made, and f° o l3. d don-badge station was slowly passed at 1. 41 ' - o f the train drew up at one of the arrival platforniB,slo Charing-cross terminus at 1.45, before whi ch the broad and lengthy pavement of the platf crrn nar r been covered with scarlet cloth, and every P reu b a rl tion for the reception of the royal passe n g ers been made by Mr. W. Cockburn, the station 814 intendant. Sa le As soon as the train stopped, the Prillo2 of ~° conducted the Princess of Wales to he r clrri6g ; A small group of ladies and gentlemen on th e 1315 0 p .orm silently saluted the prince and Pri nce b s „t a their royal highnesses crossed the platform; of group of workpeople who had assembled content with this undemonstrative meth od of oP e 0 , kinging their respect for their future and h is ° et eee u p sort, gave utterance to a loud and hearty which the prince and princess seemed• to be ta ; amused. The cheering was by no means dihlifj.sfevi when the nurse was seen to leave the train ° bat seJonds afterwards bearing the infant Pri nce ' was renewed with at least equal heartiness. f the As the train drew up quite in the interior ,°,;neg station, and close to the back of the hotel btli'"—,,f at the Strand entrance, there was but a d istalici3 lled some 60 or 70 yards to be traversed, ove r a greloeueli roadway, before the royal carriages passed thbr-rieci a pair of gates in the hoarding fronting thehnesseo ing, and in a few minutes their roy al hit.° le were safe in their London residence of Marl House. g rode The train in which the prince and princes- et was the first passenger train which ha ° r ° , 0 ;a 1 travellers literally up to the Strand; their highnesses may therefore be said to have'iltii:the h— rated the opening of the line, and to have this to prove the admirable convenience " new terminus will offer to passengers to or the West-end of London. eve,ies haf It is understood that the Princess of " derived much benefit from the invigorating edit St. Leonards ; and it must be stated to til e ra yl of the inhabitants of the two towns that thegroaS visitors hare suffered less annoyance bY 1)- b oo following them than at any other place te.V visited. al a° : The Princess of Wales has left several I; r bee s ' nations for the local charities. His rola' P. has also expressed personally to Mr. Stari°lo;icie prietor of the Royal Victoria Hotel, his tion of the attention shown him at that o'itit his meat. The visitors' book also intimated that royal highness and the princess wert3 Pm satisfied." fiec tir'r i The inhabitants of Hastings ands t. a l vi 9- ' have been gratified to learn that their .royal t° , tors have, through General Knollys, int' rn a jetic e " the mayor " the satisfaction they have elli fh - to scil s at all the arrangements connected With the ar e his royal highness and the Princg•eut.' es ( 1)1 been concerned. Their royal highne ss a 0 General Knollys continues) will each re tel r feel agreeable recollection of their visit, an d ele ta iO s 'i strong interest in the prosperity of the et °t 01 3 A portion of the household, with ords cf ye°. itir , highnesses, horses and carriages, le ft '"'" a o an d by special train at 1,38 p.m. in e llar Z e ol3, De.seon, superintendent, St. Leonardo s , t u i r , arrived in London at about a qua rter to io _ honoured_ d the Countess (Dowager) of of Jersey 11 - 11 vide Her Royal Highness the Duchess of CO i t oil .v IP D o Duchess ay at the countess's house in Berkeley-eVar°:totieo It i of Cambridge remained an hour with the c' lo oot ° to will afford many of the countess's friends tutee V H. learn that I he has greatly improved in healtll; bio 0 0 0, tPirsinHceigAhungeusssttehSeufkroiwilsckei,6;l2aikve° W le s f k t i' t 11 : : "Pl' r 11135 11 the Prince 3 - e r m a e y ryl n e - na street, Ci soonunt Excellencyhtee i s r s it returnut hetshle t eoe l jede a : lei eno i ci.kAn ... pa. as u i . t i3 ' 0 ; 06,:,0t s :e 4 o.: th The Duchess of Somerset's party this e" s of - ~ dance," duke's official residence at the Admiralty ' t lastas announced , but a " reception.' certained ill. dinner the he E Hanoverian Granville,E opmfl a aus r era l ec.hiprusi,onahner.o e t t h h e e H Earl on o . f Litchfield, . A. li t h i ee::::,:. t i t c h;:f o l o : mi ße::sborough, Lord and Lady Harry Irta l , ° ,,ii,od el le i, - ie CountessMr.E v ts, Russellc at willtheir ha nape s a i d i e o n s ; i l ;; 0 r 1 Y f' Friday next. l wr i a m e T d e h n n e e t s a n d r a y i y g L , , d bit; 17 ,,i ofW ednesday, h teh t vee ll es9 o toh n n , the Speaker will horPlore,pro March, a 0 dress. `she Marquis and Marchioness of d y e s. ion 3 S of a om t r u ,al r ri d qo a ut y ci so e t na v nb e n ed 1,,,,0r TV o n n n o ex bl t and Lady Theodora Grosvenor arrived at Or,,, ° , e ' s bre , "jol tOSVA 01 sec' i house, M : areh ni ° L E O S r aB s t : Dorset, 4 0 0 a:11/ L'' 0 $OlO oio until after Easter. w 131 ',,, le The Countes's (Frances) Waldvirielgerraevt: e • Y r i : l o l i c iesi - . evening party this evening at the farl' ill S. 1 for Carlton-gardens. P gOte Viscount Bangor has left Claridge ° 1 for Leonards-ou Sea, a OW' Lord Abercromby has left Claridge B fool Airthrey Castle, fairliwr ‹eaterCW' e,- Lord Crewe arrived in town /- fa il Crowe Hall, Cheshire, for the season• re el per Lord and Lord and Lady Still:114,0o ie9° select party at dinner last evening, at their 14° ai" street, Piccadilly. atr i" Lord and Lady Howard do Woldell ciaride''3 town yesterday from a tour of visits. A at / Lord H. Bentinck has arrive' •o iCa l Hotel, from Lincolu. fiadY iprer°' The will of the late Dowager ~ i t ion ~,,0 " . 0 Chariest° wn, has been proved in the I.osfuoteec gative Court, and the assets sworn to es° e st e a , d ; .„,ostf exhibits a singular instance of intent to cre g _ estt iax7 . ,,f interest to that designated by power of rotor: v iler yor e ; r t which conferred £lO,OOO absolute)), 111)° ,, , bat ett nand i° children. This trust is 'seemingly discharge" r null' ' tier o f follows to render the execution of the e, e , t he P ° oo c o resist the apportionments to life interests, .0,9 oleic:lite to sundry legacies to her sons, contingeat,illed to O f "P I in her wishes. The will appears cbaslcrav;t t° tile rn litigation, which may afford a rich ................ o eCt 4 of the legal profession. .--- nroB.r tit ;there is A L . . r tr° TROUT IN TIIE TIIAMES.-- e s to s icli' r T 115131 e n At el abundance of sport in the rive vo pea , taY De o be io fishing this season. Already they l' ° ' o d theY,,, 014.0,0 v.. mond while angling for roach and da ce, v-nore:_4otieP. seen feeding inverious parts of the r e is s ' 5 _ ... 1 i r og in .7 t yes:, young trout, hatched by the Them. ! I _ fl,be „pita !'' . 4 0 were turned 10w."'„,,, after th°,,,,10e. Society's apparatus , es by Jai , . 11 t bo - I .`" 10 0 Al thought trout fishing cornulelle ....,diticv, i „ e ~,,g January, the fish ere seldom it , onliidi tittle w muc h earlier than the Ist Aospril, at ' generally commence operati. • ]